 This Boston school text isthe
first printing of Aesop in Greek in the New World. It was based on the popular Eton edition and has the text in Greek
with notes in Latin and Greek.

Though not absolutely rare, this is concentrated in libraries in the East,
even the Northeast; there is no copy in California, for example, and none
in the South below Virginia save one at the University of Texas.

 Shaw & Shoemaker 24572. Contemporary treed sheep,
nicely rebacked with mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label;
original leather lightly rubbed, most at corners and edges. Variously distributed,
generally light waterstaining, and first few leaves with small area of insect
damage in outer margin, not touching text; a pinprick to first half-dozen
leaves pierces a line of type ornament on the title-page. Foxing, and instances
of pen mishaps to several leaves; some corners bumped or dog-eared. A handful
of leaves with small, early marks or pencilled annotations (a few words in
Greek, in one place). Altogether,
a respectable and intriguing survivor of obvious use in the hands of a youthful
scholar. (27822)